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My iPhone and iMac have both pretty much died in the past week and are getting to the point where I need to upgrade them.

But I use them so passingly that I resent paying £500 / 1200 for new models. So I looked into getting one that's 2 years old and they're half the price, but you sorta know it's just a stop gap solution. Likewise switching to HTC / PC has it's own issues.

Backing up is stressful too. Got stuff all over the shop, all my iTunes on a creaking external HD and finding now that design files on DVDs I burned 5 years ago now won't open. I've a mate who swears by Cloud and backs all his stuff up on there, which makes sense, but not sure I trust it just yet.

Does this bother anybody else? It didn't ought to and given that I've lost plenty of files before and it's really no bother, I don't know why I care. BUT IT FUCKING DOES MY HEAD IN.

I maintain the mac and keep it backed up religiously as i was burned when my sony vaio kicked the bucket in a big way a few years ago. and i use my phone more than i used my mouth, so it's kept in good nick too.

but i feel like i've reached the end of wanting the best shit. i can't be arsed looking it up. i think i've became the person i sued to hate when working in the link as a student; the guy who blithely buys what he had before. meh.

I fell into the 'must get a new phone every 18 months' trap for years, mostly because that's the point where my phones always seemed to carc it. Upgraded my iPhone 3GS - a perfectly fine phone - to the 4S when they came out due to that mentality and found that they're pretty much exactly the same. Won't upgrade this one until it's absolutely destroyed. No point.

Getting a new computer and moving things from one to the other used to give me the fear. It's mostly seamless nowadays - I got given an iPad and once I'd typed in my email address and password it found all my details from my iPhone up in the cloud and just applied all my settings (wallpaper, apps, contact numbers etc). Love that.

The only thing I really care about is photos, and my boyfriend religiously backs those up all the time. Music's on Google Music now (and is replaceable anyway) and all important documents and that are on my laptop as well as Google Drive / DropBox.

With hardware: my laptop's fine, had it for nearly 2 years now, can't see it'll be replaced any time soon. I've got a Nexus 10, so that's STATE OF THE ART enough for me. Phone's gonna be replaced in the autumn which I'll be dead excited about due to the fact it's well on its way out - I smashed the screen last year and the dodgy guys who repaired it did a shit job meaning there's dust underneath the glass.

Everyones like BACK THE FUCK UP or SAVE ALL YOUR SHIT TO THE SHARED DRIVE but I can't be bothered and just save it locally and get in trouble every time i go to a meeting cause I'm still like NAH I DONT BACK UP

As colinzealuk said, Time Machine exists to back your shit up, but I clicked on it once and it didn't give any indication of what the fuck it was there to do, and it looked like I had to set up preferences or some shit. Fucked if I know my preferences for shit, so I left it.

A couple of times I've been typing shit up and my computer has frozen and I had to make the call: do I turn it off and then on again, or do I sit out and wait for it to fix itself? I thought, fuck it, I can just type it up again, and turned the laptop off. When I turned it on again and opened up the word processor thing, it had recoevered all the shit I'd typed but hadn't saved. Is that Time Machine at work and I didn't have to do a thing? Who knows?